Hello
I saved this realm from the Lord of Terror.
But stuff still happened.
So what's up?
Unfortunately, terror
But not from the guys that you are used to from the U.S.
The United States loves to brand basically everyone they don't like as a terrorist,
including people who are here, which they're now using as an excuse to disappear
legal residents from this country.
International viewers will not be surprised
about the hilarity of the United States just
labeling everyone a terrorist to the point
that they're calling people here a terrorist
and now we're just...
Everyone's a terrorist?
Un-American.
Because that's what the government of the United States does.
That...
That's what they do.
Like, oh look, there's a group that is
helping the citizens of this country have rights.
What a terrorist!
But bringing it back in, the U.S.
government, through the Department of Homeland Security
and specifically ICE, has been abducting
people who are legal residents of this country.
People who have no criminal charges against
them, but are being detained by the government
simply for speaking out or just having a green card.
You've probably heard of some of these cases
already and I'll be going through them, but
I intended to make a list of the people that
we know about so far who are legal residents
with no charges that have been taken.
I was naive to think that that would be a task that I could do.
I kept finding more.
So here's a quick overview of the cases I've
been able to wrangle into something coherent,
but know that this is being done intentionally to scare people.
All of these cases are literally just
trying to cause fear and chaos among people that
they hate.
Which sounds like terrorism to me.
We'll start with Mahmoud Khalil, who was
abducted at Columbia University by plainclothes ICE
officers who showed up in an unmarked car.
This man is a legal resident, a permanent resident of the US.
He has a green card.
That means that he's here legally, but is not a US citizen.
His eight months pregnant wife is a US
citizen and she was standing right there next to him
when unidentified men rolled up and said,
"You're coming with us," and then didn't identify
themselves and took him.
While being detained, Khalil was level-headed.
He didn't push back.
He didn't really resist.
He went with it and did the calm thing,
which, good, kind of, could have gotten very bad.
The Trump administration themselves has said
that there are no charges against this guy.
They are literally just detaining him
because they claim he's a national security threat
because he was involved in protests at
Columbia University, and so they're saying that he
was a pro-Hamas supporter in his anti-Israel protests.
Whether or not there is merit as to whether
or not he said Hamas is acceptable or whatever,
none of that matters because the United
States has freedom of speech, the First Amendment,
and green card holders are protected by the First Amendment.
In this case, the state is basically
saying, "Hey, we can technically label green card
holders as dangers to national security, so
we're going to start doing that to jettison
people who say things that we don't like."
Through the Secretary of State Marco
Rubio, the US government was intending to deport
Khalil despite having no criminal record and just being a part of a protest.
A judge blocked that deportation, but it's a shaky block at best.
Marco Rubio, if he wanted to, can just
point at someone, say you're a national security
threat, and get rid of them.
It does not matter what your politics are.
The US government shouldn't have the
ability to point at someone and disappear them.
I know they do that.
We know that.
And that's not okay.
So then there's Fabian Schmidt, a legal
resident, green card holder of the US since 2008, really
since 2007, but he got his green card in 2008, and he has largely just been here,
chilling since then.
His wife is a US citizen, and when he was
returning from a recent trip to Luxembourg,
he was detained, and his family didn't know where he was.
His wife showed up to pick him up at the airport.
She waited for four hours, heard nothing, and it wasn't until this man was taken to
the hospital that his family found out
where he was, which was being in custody of ICE,
being essentially tortured.
They took him into a room, they stripped him naked, put him into a cold shower, and
tried to force him to give up his green card.
They reportedly deprived him of food,
water, medicine, and sleep, and he was diagnosed
with influenza.
That's why he was at the hospital.
After he was diagnosed, he was given back to ICE for some godawful reason, and he's
now being held in an ICE detention center.
This guy didn't do anything, a legal
resident of this country with US citizens as family,
it's 2007.
Just coming back into the country, getting
detained, getting disappeared, family doesn't
know where you are, getting denied food and medicine.
This is the United States government.
This is their direction.
So ICE then went back to Columbia
University, where Columbia had a bunch of anti-Israel
protests, for sure.
But I want to point out that Columbia is also Barack Obama's alma mater.
So it's not super surprising that Trump is
targeting Columbia University as hard as he is
So ICE goes back to Columbia and they seek out two more students.
One is a Palestinian student from the West
Bank who was also involved in the protests
who has been taken.
They claim that she overstayed her student visa.
The other student that they were targeting
was an urban planning doctoral student from
India who was involved in the protests and
has since chosen to self deport to not deal
with this shit anymore.
So there's four of them, two of which are
legal residents and the other two are here
on work, were here on visas.
I was then poking around and it turns out
USA Today has collected a list of more legal
residents that have just been disappeared without charges.
Their article primarily centered around a woman named Camilla who has been taken by
ICE after returning from her honeymoon with
her US citizen husband and having lived in
the US for years.
Her husband had voted for Trump believing the
whole "they're only gonna go after illegals" thing
It's heartbreaking because people either
didn't realize or didn't care that when Trump was
saying we're going to go after "criminal
legal aliens", what he meant was brown people and
people I don't want to see anymore.
Others on the list include a 50 year old woman
who has lived in America for 30 years; detained.
A 30 year old woman with a US citizen father
and siblings and had her papers proving that
she is a legal permanent resident; taken.
A 30 year old European woman who is engaged
to a US citizen but according to DHS overstayed
a visa a decade ago; taken.
These are people being taken from their family
by government agents and being held in unknown
locations having not committed any crime.
I wish I had an answer to the question of how do we stop this?
What do we do about this?
The answer is have been caring already and have voted.
I am not a fan of Kamala Harris.
I would not have been a fan of a Kamala Harris presidency.
But under a Kamala Harris presidency we
wouldn't be dealing with day to day chaos, tariff wars
with our closest allies and people who are
here legally who didn't commit a crime getting
disappeared in the middle of the day.
It would be very nice to be able to focus on
anything else except for the just cavalcade
of chaos that is being done to our people.
That is what people were talking about with harm reduction.
Yes, the United States is always a trolley
problem when it comes to the presidential election.
You're going to kill people.
But are you going to kill one or way more?
Well, a lot or way more.
But aside from time travel and undoing the
election, here is what you can do, which is
know your rights.
I've linked in today's newsletter a fact
sheet of the rights that you have when you're
being confronted by ICE.
Rights are not going to stop ICE from detaining you because they're Nazis.
Your rights aren't a magic shield that
protects you from everything, but they are backed by
the law for whatever that might mean.
I guess my point is this, care.
Care about people.
Care about the power that is being accumulated in the government.
Care about the fact that the president can
target people that he doesn't like based on
what they say and send an agent out to just go take them with no charges.
US presidents deport a ton of people.
Obama deported so many people while he was in office.
Largely, they were targeting people who
were here as undocumented citizens with active
criminal records.
I still disagree.
I still disagree with deporting people.
But that was still a separating factor.
Now it is going after anyone and everyone
who might show dissent if they're here legally
or not, it doesn't matter.
I promise you that if you are watching this
video and you think that you are exempt from
the US government going after you, not the case.
You can be the whitest, Christianist, straightest male possible.
And you're probably still not uber rich and
therefore they don't give a shit about you.
But you know who does give a shit about you?
I do.
And a lot of other people.
Because it turns out that the vast majority
of people in this country actually want things
to be better for people.
And regardless of how edgelord anyone ever
wants to be and regardless of how evil and
angry and screamy people want to be, I still want something very simple for you.
I want you to have food, shelter, and healthcare.
I want you to be paid a fair wage and have more time to spend with your family.
That's it.
That's what I want.
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Let's move on.
Dear listener, I need you to know this next section is economy stuff.
I promise two things and then we're going
to get to pretty much just good stuff from
there on out.
Okay.
Not just good stuff, but I did get a lot of neat things.
I want to tell you about them.
First up, Chuck Schumer has a shame kink
Chuck Schumer and nine other Democrats in the Senate sided with Republicans to pass
the Republican spending bill and not shut down the government.
Not shutting down the government is usually a good goal.
That's nice.
Unfortunately the government that is not
being shut down is the government that I've just
been talking about that's abducting people.
And so the idea that Democrats had, at least
the House Democrats was let's shut this fucker
down and use that as a negotiating point.
So much so that Nancy Pelosi was trying to
whip votes in the Senate to try to get people
to side against Chuck Schumer's plan.
That woman sure knows how to whip it, except not well enough because it passed.
Let's focus less about the bill itself for a second here.
I mean, it's going to not be wonderful.
We know that.
Let's talk about the Democrats.
So some people think that I am, I'm a Democrat.
I am not a Democrat.
I'm an anarchist.
I get it.
A lot of people hear the words that I say
and they're like, Oh, he's saying Libby words.
He's a Lib.
Don't, don't, don't call me that.
Please.
Anyway, the Democrats, of which I am not, are fucked.
Their leadership is boned.
They have consistently just made the worst
possible decisions on choosing leadership roles
Oh my God.
Hakeem Jeffries has been basically useless
in the House and now Chuck Schumer is actively
impeding the Democrats from doing anything useful.
And so we're seeing a whole bunch of
Democrats from the Senate and the House being asked
if they still believe in Chuck Schumer and
they're all like, uh, do I have to answer
that question?
So I mean, maybe he'll be removed at some point.
The dude is also the Senator from New York
and is on the record saying that he doesn't
care about the abduction of Mahmoud Khalil from Columbia University in New York.
Seems a little backwards.
Anyway, you know how the number usually go up?
The number go down now.
Yeah.
The stock market kind of took a, a, it
just kind of, it just kind of, it just kind of
just, it just went, it just kind of like in more normal financial terms, the stock
market is plummeting and all last week it
was just, I guess it went back, I went back
to the sounds.
Largely between everything
I've already been talking about, the chaos from
the Trump administration, the on and off
tariffs with everyone, including our closest trade partners.
No one feels comfortable in this environment.
And so stocks are tanking.
On top of that,
Tesla, which has its own extra set of
problems, given that Elon Musk is a literal Nazi, they
saw a massive drop this past week, like
15% of their value in a day and they're down
45% year to date.
So that's fun.
Get bent.
Okay.
I told you, I promised better stuff.
So gaming
A game development studio that
is run by the original programmer of the Star
Fox franchise has just announced a spiritual successor to the Star Fox franchise.
Nailed it.
It's called "Wild Blue."
And it looks, it looks like it's going to
have a lot of the same spirit of the original
games being more about a like arcade style
on rails shooter rather than whatever the
fuck Nintendo was doing with that franchise towards the end.
So here's hoping that I'll be able to, to bop
around and pew pew and enemy shields analyzed.
Shit.
Fuck.
I thought I had good stuff.
I have two, uh, well, I promise there's good things at some point.
The CEO of the company that makes Roblox was
asked about what he's doing about the whole,
you know, kids being groomed on Roblox thing.
If you're not familiar with Roblox, it's
just, I don't even know how to describe it.
It's a massive online platform that has a
lot of users between the ages of 8 and 12.
It's like a video game, social thing, game
engine platform, online thing, but largely
it is a place where child predators prey on children.
And so some parents were like, Hey, CEO of Roblox, what you doing about that?
To which he responded, I don't stop asking me about this.
His actual response was if you're not
comfortable, don't let your kids be on Roblox.
What a wonderful reply from the profiting off of children guy.
Well done guy.
We also saw a leaked video from Sony where
they showed off a work in progress AI powered NPC
The leaked video was from the PlayStation studios advanced technology group.
And it was, it was a demo that showed
Aloy, the main character from the horizon series
being controlled by an AI doing like speech and facial animations and everything.
We later learned that the woman who actually
plays Aloy in those games and does all the
voice acting and mocap was unaware that
this was happening, but she's been apparently
assured that they didn't use any of her data for training the AI.
Her response is still this sucks.
Lightning round and hopefully good stuff.
An American Airlines Boeing 737 caught fire, but what?
No one's dead.
They heard, they heard the engines rattling.
So they landed and then it caught fire on
the tarmac, which is a really nice place for
it to catch fire.
And ultimately we now have an iconic photo
of a bunch of people standing on the wings
of a burning airplane that just says American right next to it.
Completely unrelated, but us airlines are warning that consumer demand is down.
There's a group in Kenya making building
materials out of agricultural waste bound together by
fungal mycelium.
Just a really cool sequence of words.
Hella solar punk literally using oyster
mushroom mycelium to bind together material into
essentially earth bricks.
That one counts.
That's a good one.
Two US federal judges from quite literally
across the country, California and Maryland,
have issued orders requiring the Trump
administration to reinstate like 24,000 federal employees
who were fired.
You know, all those people that Doge has been firing, undo, control Z.
The deadline for that order is the day
that this goes out at 1pm Monday, March 17th.
We'll see what happens.
Apparently a lot of people have been brought
back with just put immediately on administrative
leave so they're just being paid.
What a mess.
And finally for today, scientists in Iraq
found stone tablets, which they believe held just
basically like bureaucratic notes from ancient Mesopotamia.
Like they found ancient spreadsheets.
I'm just thinking about like ancient emails.
I hope to to whom it may concern.
I hope this slate finds you well.
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